Combination jacket and hood

ABSTRACT

A combination jacket and hood in which the hood is attached to the neckline of the jacket by a strip of flexible fabric which permits the hood to move relative to the jacket.

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I 221 Filed- Aug. 31, 19 Primary Examiner-James R. Boler 2] 1 Appl No:68,379 Attorney-Nathan N1 Kraus and Joseph R. Marcus [57] ABSTRACT 2/202A combination jacket and hood in which the hood is f 3/00 attached tothe neckline of the jacket by a strip of Fleld M Search 202 flexiblefabric which permits the hood to move relative to the jacket. 1 5hReferences Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1 Claim, 4 Drawing Figures (:21n5() 3/1899 Fain ..2/202 COMBINATION JACKET AND HOOD BACKGROUND OF THEINVENTION This invention relates to a combined jacket and hood in whichthe hood is attached to the jacket by a strip of soft flexible fabric toafford limited free relative movement between the hood and the jacket.

Cold weather garments both for children and adults of the typecomprising a jacket and attached hood are well known. Such garments arefabricated generally of bulky and relatively inflexible materials andaccordingly afford practically no relative movement between the hood andjacket body. Thus, for example, when such a garment is worn by a childthe hood remains relatively immovable when the child turns his head fromside to side with the result that the childs side vision is obstructedby the side portions of the hood. This condition presents a hazard to achild crossing a street since his view of oncoming vehicle traffic isimpaired when he turns only his head to view the traffic conditions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In accordance with our invention we provide aflexible knitted strip which is interposed between the neck portion ofthe jacket and the hood to afford desired relative twisting movementbetween the hood and the jacket, the strip being stitched both to thejacket and the hood. Thus, when the wearer turns his head from side toside the hood will move freely with the head af fording greater comfortand safety to the wearer BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is aperspective view ofa combined jacket and hood in accordance with ourinvention.

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the garment partiallyopen to illustrate the interior construction.

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of the garment and FIG. 4is a fragmentary front elevational view of the garment shown in FIG. 3,but in fully opened condition.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to the drawings,the numeral 5 indicates a combination garment including a jacket 6 and ahood 7. Both the jacket and the hood are fabricated from suitablematerials conventionally used for such garments, such materialscomprising light weight laminated or quilted fabrics and heavy weightwoven fabrics such that the finished garment is somewhat inflexible.According to prior art construction, the hood was stitched directly tothe neckline of the jacket to achieve an integrated garment. Such aconstruction resulted in a condition in which the hood was immovable inrelation to the jacket and required the wearer to move his whole body inorder to effect rotation of the hood.

In accordance with the present invention a strip 8 of knitted or ribbedfabric is attached along the lower longitudinal edge thereof to theneckline 9 of the jacket, as by a line of stitching. The upperlongitudinal edge of the strip 8 is attached to the inner surface of thehood 7 along a line 11 spaced upwardly from the lower edge of the hoodso that the lower margmal edge portion 2 of the hood overlaps the strip8 in the manner illustrated in FIG. 2. Thus, for windbreak purposes thefabric of the hood 7 which is generally impervious to wind affordsprotection to the neck of the wearer.

The hood 7 is provided with a conventional drawstring 13 which passesthrough a tube 14 formed in the marginal edge portion of the hoodopening.

It will be apparent that the hood 7 is connected to the body portion ofthe jacket 6 only by means of the flexible strip 8 so that even when thedrawstring 13 is tightened about the face of the wearer the hood 7 isfree to follow the movement of the head, thereby precluding obstructionof any vision of the wearer and affording greater comfort to the wearer.

Various changes coming within spirit of our invention may suggestthemselves to those skilled in the art; hence, we do not wish to belimited to the specific embodiment shown and described or usesmentioned, but intend the same to be merely exemplary, the scope of ourinvention being limited only by the appended claims.

We claim:

I. In combination a jacket having a marginal edge defining a neckline, ahood and a flexible strip of knitted fabric of substantial width toafford substantial relative movement between said hood and said jacket,said strip being stitched along one longitudinal edge to the saidmarginal edge of said jacket, said strip being stitched only along theother longitudinal edge to the inner surface of said hood along a linespaced inwardly from the lower edge of said hood, the lower marginaledge portion of said hood overlapping said strip.

1. In combination a jacket having a marginal edge defining a neckline, ahood and a flexible strip of knitted fabric of substantial width toafford substantial relative movement between said hood and said jacket,said strip being stitched along one longitudinal edge to the saidmarginal edge of said jacket, said strip being stitched only along theother longitudinal edge to the inner surface of said hood along a linespaced inwardly from the lower edge of said hood, the lower marginaledge portion of said hood overlapping said strip.